Heat 2
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4.5 • 60 Ratings
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Publisher Description
NOW A NO.1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Michael Mann, Oscar-nominated filmmaker and writer-director of Heat and Miami Vice, teams up with Meg Gardiner to deliver Mann’s first crime novel, an explosive return to the world and characters of his classic film Heat – an all-new story that illuminates what happened before and after the film.
A Times Book of the Year 2022
‘Michael Mann’s HEAT is one of my all-time favourite movies. HEAT 2 is now one of my favourite suspense novels’ JAMES PATTERSON
Described by Michael Mann as both a prequel and sequel to the renowned, critically acclaimed film of the same name, HEAT 2 covers the formative years of homicide detective Vincent Hanna (Oscar winner Al Pacino) and elite criminals Neil McCauley (Oscar winner Robert De Niro), Chris Shiherlis (Val Kilmer), and Nate (Oscar winner Jon Voight), and features the same extraordinary ambition, scope, rich characterizations, and attention to detail as the epic film.
This new story leads up to the events of the film and then moves beyond it, featuring new characters on both sides of the law, new high-line heists, and breathtakingly cinematic action sequences. Ranging from the streets of L.A. to the inner sancta of rival Taiwanese crime syndicates in Paraguay to a massive drug cartel money-laundering operation just over the border in Mexico, HEAT 2 illuminates the dangerous workings of international crime organizations and the agents who pursue them as it provides a full-blooded portrait of the men and women who inhabit both worlds.
Operatic in scope, HEAT 2 is engrossing, moving, and tragic – a masterpiece of crime fiction from one of the most innovative and influential filmmakers in American cinema.
PRAISE FOR HEAT 2:
‘Sweep, self-confidence and a cinematic sheen make this the most immersive of reads’
The Times
‘A brilliant and riveting novel with rich and real characters and powerhouse storytelling…’
Don Winslow
‘An exciting, emotionally rich thriller, with just as much style and panache as Michael Mann's original classic heist movie’
Adrian McKinty, #1 International bestselling author
‘Easily one of the finest novels of the year!’
Steve Cavanagh, #1 International bestselling author
About the author
Michael Mann is a world-renowned director, screenwriter, producer, and one of the most innovative and influential filmmakers in American cinema. Mann has written and directed award-winning television movies and series (including Miami Vice and Crime Story) and feature films including Manhunter, The Last of the Mohicans, Heat, and Miami Vice. He has produced numerous feature films, including Academy Award-winner The Aviator and directed several commercially successful, critically acclaimed projects including the feature film Collateral and the pilot for the HBO series Luck. Mann has won many prestigious awards, including a BAFTA for Best Film (The Aviator), a Golden Globe for Best Picture/Drama (The Aviator), and an NBR Award for Best Director (Collateral). Mann lives in Los Angeles.
Meg Gardiner is the author of sixteen acclaimed, award-winning novels. Her thrillers have been bestsellers in the U.S. and internationally and have been translated into more than twenty languages.
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Emmy-winning director, screenwriter, and producer Mann has coauthored his first crime novel with Edgar winner Gardiner (The Dark Corners of the Night), which falls short as a sequel to Mann's 1995 movie, Heat. Heat focused on a battle of wits between Neil McCauley, the head of a Los Angeles robbery crew, and the LAPD Robbery-Homicide Division's Vincent Hanna, who sacrificed a personal life to his job. Since McCauley was gunned down by Hanna at the movie's climax, the focus is on the member of the robber's crew who escaped, Chris Shiherlis. Flashbacks describe Shiherlis's life before the film, starting in 1988, and sections set in 1996 and 2000 detail his time on the run, during which he commits new crimes, ending up in Paraguay as a result. Hanna also gets a backstory, including his search for a sadistic murderer and rapist during his tenure with the Chicago police, which picks up again, unexpectedly, in 2000. Neither character is meaningfully fleshed out, and the prose is often stilted and baroque ("The cheap porn of Alex's illogic roars in Hanna's head"). Even passionate fans of the movie are likely to feel that Mann should have quit while he was ahead.
Customer Reviews
Fantastic
Great read! I was nervous that it was going to be a legacy-tarnishing: absolutely not! Can’t wait for the film!
An excellent read
Brings together a number of Mann’s works - the original Heat, Miami Vice, and Black Hat. For those who know the film, Heat 2 really is a great read. And for those who don’t know the original movie, Heat 2 can be read as a thriller in its own right. A few too many similes are thrown about, everyone is a bit too “chill” (there must be other words to describe someone looking relaxed and ready to go) but other than that, it’s well worth a read. A proper thriller it most definitely is.
Cool, slick and capable of satisfying the insatiable who lust for action on every page
An irrefutable future classic. Michael Mann’s first venture into the world of novels is near perfect in every way. The words paint pictures so vivid that it already feels like the film version has been made.
A book that breaks your heart as you enter the final pages but fill you with a sense of closure seeing what happened to the cast of the original film. Phenomenal